(CNN) -- When Leidy Sanchez and her husband, Carlos Reyes, went to the hospital last week to deliver their baby, a nurse got her a gown, hooked her up to a fetal monitor and asked an unexpected question: Would they like to donate cells from their baby's umbilical cord blood to a public bank?"We said, 'For real, people are doing this?' " says Sanchez. "We'd never heard of it."
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Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Your baby can save a life
(CNN) -- When Leidy Sanchez and her husband, Carlos Reyes, went to the hospital last week to deliver their baby, a nurse got her a gown, hooked her up to a fetal monitor and asked an unexpected question: Would they like to donate cells from their baby's umbilical cord blood to a public bank?"We said, 'For real, people are doing this?' " says Sanchez. "We'd never heard of it."
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